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Rebuilding Soils on Mined Land for Native Forests in Appalachia
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The eastern U.S. Appalachian region supports the world’s most extensive
temperate forests, but surface mining for coal has caused forest loss. New
reclamati...
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Amazon Basin climate under global warming: the role of the sea surface temperature
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The Hadley Centre coupled climate–carbon cycle model (HadCM3LC) predicts loss of the Amazon
rainforest in response to future anthropogenic greenhouse gas emi...
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Acceleration, Predicted change, Carbon stocks, Above- and below-ground soil carbon (SOC), Forests, Dessication, Threshholds, Habitat degradation, Economy, Clima...
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Allowable carbon emissions lowered by multiple climate targets
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Climate targets are designed to inform policies that would limit the
magnitude and impacts of climate change caused by anthropogenic
emissions of greenhouse g...
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Management, Predicted change, Temperature, Biosphere–atmosphere feedbacks, Carbon policy, Economy, Climate Impacts, Models, Carbon cycle, Heat, Ecosystems, So...
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Managing Forests and Fire in Changing Climates
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With projected climate change, we
expect to face much more forest
fi re in the coming decades. Policymakers
are challenged not to categorize all
fires as de...
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Rate of tree carbon accumulation increases continuously with tree size
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Forests are major components of the global carbon cycle, providing
substantial feedback to atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations1
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Our ability to unders...
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Risk Communication on Climate: Mental Models and Mass Balance
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Public confusion about the urgency of reductions
in greenhouse gas emissions results from a basic
misconception.
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When the river runs dry: human and ecological values of dry riverbeds
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Temporary rivers and streams that naturally cease to flow and dry up can be found on every continent.
Many other water courses that were once perennial now als...
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The energetic implications of curtailing versus storing solar- and wind-generated electricity
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We present a theoretical framework to calculate how storage affects the energy return on energy
investment (EROI) ratios of wind and solar resources. Our metho...
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Ecologists Report Huge Storm Losses in China’s Forests
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From delicate orchids and magnolias to rare Chinese yews and Kwangtung pines, the flora of Guangdong
Nanling National Nature Reserve is considered so precious ...
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Plant community, Native species, Disturbance, Diversity, Habitat, Climate Change, Hot spots, Storms, Forests, Ice, Storm damage, Biodiversity, Endangered Specie...
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Challenges in the conservation, rehabilitation and recovery of native stream salmonid populations: beyond the 2010 Luarca symposium
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– In May 2010, I chaired a session on challenges to salmonid conservation at the international symposium
‘Advances in the population ecology of stream salm...
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Conservation organizations, Management, Aquatic ecosystems, Land cover, Connectivity improvement, Conservation, Trout, Fisheries, Conservation groups, Forest Ma...
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Climate change impacts on the biophysics and economics of world fisheries
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Global marine fisheries are underperforming economically because of overfishing, pollution and habitat degradation. Added to these threats is the looming challe...
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Environmental economics, Climate Impacts, Human–wildlife interactions, Climate Change, Fish, Marine ecosystems, Managers, Fisheries, Heat, Mitigation, Managem...
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Dissecting insect responses to climate warming: overwintering and post-diapause performance in the southern green stink bug, Nezara viridula, under simulated climate-change conditions
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The effect of simulated climate change on overwintering and postdiapause
reproductive performance is studied in Nezara viridula (L.) (Heteroptera:
Pentatomida...
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Range expansion, Insects, Climate Change, Range shift, Colonization, Niche tracking, Winter temperature
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The Holocene`
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Combining nine tree growth proxies from four sites, from the west coast of Norway to the Kola Peninsula of NW Russia, provides a well replicated
(> 100 annua...
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The Wheel of Life Food, Climate, Human Rights, and the Economy
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The links between climate change and industrial agriculture create a nexus of crises—food
insecurity, natural resource depletion and degradation, as well as ...
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Missing feedbacks, asymmetric uncertainties, and the underestimation of future warming
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Historical evidence shows that atmospheric greenhouse
gas (GhG) concentrations increase during periods of
warming, implying a positive feedback to future clim...
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TRY – a global database of plant traits
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Plant traits – the morphological, anatomical, physiological, biochemical and phenological characteristics of plants and
their organs – determine how primar...
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U.S. Forest Carbon and Climate Change Controversies and Win-Win Policy Approaches
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As consensus grows about the serious impacts of global climate change, the role of
forests in carbon storage is increasingly recognized. Terrestrial vegetation...
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Unburnable Carbon – Are the world’s financial markets carrying a carbon bubble?
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The Carbon Tracker initiative is a new way of looking at the carbon emissions
problem. It is focused on the fossil fuel reserves held by publically listed
com...
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Scenario Planning: a Tool for Conservation in an Uncertain World
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: Conservation decisions about how, when, and where to act are typically based on our expectations
for the future. When the world is highly unpredictable and w...
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Call Off the Quest
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Over the past 30 years, the climate research community has made valiant efforts to answer the “climate sensitivity” question: What is the long-term equilibr...
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Climate Change, Climate Impacts, Climate sensitivity
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